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An Internet Project
On the evening of 23rd February, 1905, Paul Harris invited three friends to a meeting.
Silvester Schiele, a coal dealer, Hiram Shorey, a merchant tailor, and Gustavus Loehr, a mining engineer, gathered with Harris in Loehr's business office in Room 711 of the Unity Building in downtown Chicago on Dearborn Avenue. There the Rotary Club of Chicago was conceived, and the Rotary movement was born.
For more than one hundred years, business and professional people around the world have gathered weekly for fellowship, service and Rotary.
Follow the story online at Rotary’s Global History